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NEWS
| OCTOBER 25, 2005
Greek Life
Seminar warns of alcohol abuse
Students are urged to monitor
their drinking and take other precautions.
By Michelle
Echevarria
The Shorthorn staff
An alcohol awareness seminar Monday informed Multicultural Greek
organizations and others about the hazards and consequences of drug
and alcohol use as part of Red Ribbon Week.
Beth Mivedor, Tarrant County Council training coordinator, spoke
on alcoholism and drugs. She positioned some audience members in
a line, letting them represent neurons in the brain. The activity
demonstrated why the mind and body go through stages such as pleasure,
craving and sleepiness when a person consumes alcohol.
Mivedor also described ways to identify excessive alcohol use: not
being able to remember a person’s alcohol consumption, asking
for a ride home or if routine things become amusing.
Mivedor also discussed students regulating their drinking by having
none at all, monitoring the amount or opting for other activities
that do not involve alcohol.
“You don’t have to drink to have fun,” she said.
She said that there is great impact on people through these sessions,
especially when information is shared among peers afterward.
“We encourage people to make wiser choices,” Mivedor
said. “And that’s what impacts communities, organizations
as well as cultures.”
International business senior Fransisco Banda, Delta Alpha Omega
president, said the session taught students how to be careful when
they go out to have fun.
“Coming up is Halloween, and parties are happening everywhere,”
he said. “It’s to make more people aware.”
Greek adviser Mike Taddesse said the campus alcohol awareness seminars
are a good way to keep students informed.
“This is a great seminar,” he said. “This is a
great way to keep alcohol awareness fresh in everybody’s minds.”
Finance senior Catherine Medrano attended the seminar with some
of her Delta Alpha Sigma sorority sisters and said she is now more
informed about alcohol.
“Just by seeing the presentation, there are a lot of things
I didn’t know,” she said. “It’s important
for anybody to realize how [alcohol] impacts health and judgment.”
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SIGNS OF ALCOHOL OVERDOSE
• Mental confusion, stupor, coma, can’t
be roused
• No response to pinching skin
• Vomiting while sleeping
• Seizures
• Slow or irregular breathing, less than eight
breaths per minute
• Low body temperature
• Bluish skin color, paleness
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